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HORTICULTURE 



February 24, 1906 



BUYERS' DIRECTORY— Continued. 



SOUTHERN WILD SMILAX. 



II. M. Robinson & Co., 8 & 11 Provim-i 



St., Boston. 



For page see List of Advertisers. 



E. A. Beaven. Evergreeu, Ala. 

 For page see List of Advertisers. 



SPHAGNUM; CEDAR POLES. 

 H. R. Akers, Chatsworth, N. J. 



VENTILATING APPARATUS. 

 Burnham Hltchlngs Plerson Co., 

 1133 Broadway, New York. 

 For page see F.lst of Advertisers. 



John A. Seollay, 73-75 Myrtle Ave., 



Brooklyn, N. Y. 



For page see List of Advertisers. 



Weathered Co., 46 and 48 Marlon St., 



New York. 



For page see List of Advertisers. 



Foley Mfg. Co., 471 W. 23d St., Chicago. 



For page see List of A d vertisers. 



The Chicago Lifted 



J. C. Monlnger Co.. 421 Hawthorne Ave.. 



Chicago. 



VERBENAS. 



H. F. Mlchell Co., Philadelphia. Pa. 



For page see List of Advertisers. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS. 



Boston. 



For page see List of Advertisers. 

 S. F. McCarthy & Co.. 84 Hawley St., Bos 



ton. 

 George A. Sutherland Co., 34 Uawley St.. 



Boton. 

 Welch Bros., 15 Province St.. Boston. 



Buffalo. 



For page see List of Advertisers. 

 VVm. F. Kastiiig. 383-87 Elllcott St., Buf 

 falo. N. Y. 



Chicago, 



For page see List of Advertisers. 

 J. A. Budlong, 37 Randolph St., Chicago. 

 E. H. Hunt. 70-78 Wabash Ave., Chicago. 

 Chas. W.McKellar, 51 Wabash Av., Chicago. 

 Peter Reinberg. 51 Wabash Av., Chicago. 

 A. L. Randall Co., 21 Randolph St., Chicago. 

 Wletor Bros.. 51 Wabash Av., Chicago. 

 Vaughan & Sperry, 60 Wabash Av., Chicago. 

 E. F. Wintersou Co., 45, 47. 49 Wabash 

 Av., Chicago. 



Cincinnati. 



Ohio Cut Flower Co., 129 E. 3d St. 

 Wn \,jrphy. 128 E. 3d St. 



Detroit. 



For page see List of Advertisers. 

 Michigan Cut Flower Exchange, 38 & 40 

 Miami Av. Wm. Dilger, nigr. 



New York. 



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 Bonnot Bros., 55-57 West 2Uth St., New 



York. 

 J. S. Fenrlch, 48 W. 30th St., New York. 

 Ford Bros., 4S West 2Sth St., New York, 

 hi. E. Froment, 57 W. 28th St., New York. 

 Alex. J. Uuttuian. 43 West 28th St. 

 E. C. Uoran, 55 West 28th St., New York. 

 Philip F. Kessler, 55 W. 26th St., New 



York. 

 Julius Lang, 53 West 30th St., New York. 

 A. H. Langjahr, 55 W. 28 th St., New York. 

 James McMauus, 50 W. 3Uth St., New York. 

 Chas. Millaug, 50 West 29th St., New York. 

 Frauk Millang, 55-57 W. 26th St., New 



York. 

 A. Moltz, 55-57 W. 26th St., New York. 

 John J. Perkins, 115 W. 30th St., New York. 

 John 1. Raynor, 49 W. 28th St., New York. 

 W. F. Sheridan, 39 W. 28th St., New York. 

 Traendly & Schenck, 44 W. 2Sth St., N. Y. 

 A. L. Young & Co., 54 W. 28th St., N. Y. 

 John Young, 51 W. 28th St.. New York. 



Philadelphia. 



For page see List of Advertisers. 

 W. E. McKissIck, 1221 Filbert St., Phlla 



delphia, Pa. 

 Leo Nlessen Co., 1217 Arch St., Phlla 



delphia. Pa. 

 s S. Pennock, 1612-18 Ludlow St., Phlla 



delphia, Pa. 



Pittsburg. 



For page see List of Advertisers. 

 Pittsburg Cut Flower Co., Ltd., 604 



Liberty St., Pittsburg, Pa. 

 J. B. Murdoch & Co., 545 Liberty St., Pitts 



burg. 



New Offers in This Issue. 



ANNOUNCEMENT. 



Pierson U-Bar Co.. 1 Madison Square. 



New York. 



For page see Lisi of Advertisers. 



BEDDING PLANTS, CLEMATIS, 

 ASPARAGUS. 



C. Eisele, 11th ana Roy Srs., Philadelphia. 

 For page see List of Advertisers. 



BEGONIA GLOIRE DE LORRAINE. 



Innes & McRae, Cheswick, Pa. 

 For page see List of Advertisers. 



CARNATION, ROBERT CRAIG. 



J. H. Thompson Carnation Co., Juliet, lil 

 For page see List of Advertisers. 



CARNATIONS, ROOTED CUTTINGS. 



Chicago Carnation Co., Joliet. 111. 

 For page see List of Advertisers. 



NURSERY STOCK. 



Green's Nursery Co.. Rochester. N. Y. 

 For page see List of Advertisers. 



NURSERY STOCK. 



P. A. Keene, 1 Madison Av.. New York. 

 For page see List of Advertisers. 



ROSES. GRAFTED BRIDES AND 

 'MAIDS. 



R. T. MeGorum, Natick, Mass. 

 Fur page see List of Advertisers. 



SWEET PEAS. 



O. V. Zangen, Hoboken, -N. J. 

 For page see list "f Advertisers. 



TOMATO AND PLANT SUPPORTS. 



Igoe Bros.. 22ii North 9th St., 



Brooklyn. N. Y. 



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WANTS. 



GOOD MEN 



When you need goc 

 skilled or unskilled, 



men, 

 „ ite: 



THOS. H. 



BAMBRICK 



34 South 7th Street, Philadelphia 



Help of all kinds, including that for 

 Florists, Nurserymen, Seedsmen and the 

 Horticultural trade generally. 



HORTICULTURE needs a wide- 

 awake representative in every town 

 in the land. Good commissions paid 

 on advertising and subscriptions. If 

 you are ambitious, write for terms. 



WANTED TO RENT— Three or four 

 greenhouses and grounds in the vicinity of 

 Boston. Address M. B., care of HORTI- 

 CULTTJRE, 11 Hamilton Place, Boston. 



COMPETENT GARDENER wishes to 

 take charge of a private place with greeu- 

 houses; over 10 years' experience in North 

 and South America; good references. Ad- 

 dress H-212, care HORTICULTURE, 11 

 Hamilton Place, Boston. 



YOU 

 WE 



i ORDERS 

 ADVERTISING 



LET US GET TOGETHER 



AN EXCITING HUNT FOR INSECT 

 PARASITES. 



From the latest scientific bug hunt 

 George Compere, chief of the State 

 Horticultural Department of Califor- 

 nia, recently returned by steamship 

 from China. His itinerary embraced 

 travel from San Francisco to New 

 York, from New York to Brazil, from 

 Brazil to London, from London to 

 West Australia, from Australia to 

 China and from China to San Fran- 

 cisco. Compere went for parasites to 

 prey on two kinds of scales that infest 

 and destroy orange trees. One sort he 

 tound and carried to West Australia 

 on a Government order. The second 

 parasite involved the most curious 

 quest for relief from pests and the 

 longest one in point of miles traversed 

 in the interest of science that the 

 annals of such work may boast. 



The purple scale damages the orange 

 trees of Southern California largely. 

 Some months ago a parasite that kills 

 the purple scale was found and many 

 of its eggs were sent to San Fran- 

 cisco to the quarantine station for 

 insect pests, in the Ferry building in 

 cold storage. There the specimens 

 were viewed with admiration by Com- 

 pere's confreres, Ehrhorn and Carnes, 

 and great results were hoped for. 

 Unfortunately the eggs did not hatch. 

 Probably the cold storage was too 

 much for them. How to get the para- 

 site here in shape to do business as 

 against the purple scale was a ques- 

 tion that became pressing. Compere 

 was circumnavigating the world. 

 Communication was had with him and 

 it was agreed that trees infested with 

 the purple scale should be sent from 

 San Francisco to China, to be taken 

 inland several hundred miles in China 

 and there exposed to the visits of the 

 purple scale exterminator. 



Compere found the trees from Cali- 

 fornia in China at a sea port. He then 

 had to journey by boat many days up 

 a river that ran so swiftly that oars- 

 men could not row against the cur- 

 rent, and it was necessary to have 

 coolies on the river banks pull the 

 boat along with ropes for days at a 

 time. Finally, after some rough ex- 

 periences, Compere reached the prov- 

 ince that is the home of the enemy 

 of the purple scale. There he went 

 ashore. 



Thousands of the Chinese farmers 

 in the neighborhood had never seen a 

 white man before and came miles to 

 see Compere. The owner of the boat 

 in which Compere had journeyed 

 would not tie his boat to the river 

 bank at night, because he knew that 

 he would be killed by Chinese thieves 

 who wished to get it, and he anchored 

 nightly in the middle of the river. 

 The traveled orange trees were taken 

 ashore and were carried by two men 

 many more miles by land. There the 

 purple scale exterminator finally made 

 its home in the imported trees. 



Once more the trees were picked up 

 and laboriously carried by hand by 

 two coolies to the river. The trees 

 were shipped by Compere and he ac- 

 companied them to the sea. Then 

 they were put, after a time, on a 

 steamship for San Francisco, and they 

 reached this port simultaneously with 

 Compere, having journeyed 12,000 

 miles by sea. some hundreds of miles 



